I've seen a lot of hate for Scribd around, and I have to admit, their model doesn't appeal to me, but hey, they have to make $$ somehow. Instead of complaining, however, I got to work and made a quick script to rip the images from uploaded documents (https://www.scribd.com/doc/something). It is avai...

I needed to modify an old Java program of mine, so I opened up NetBeans again for the first time in over a year. I was reminded yet again why I grew out of Java: High DPI support for Swing. I was getting sick of squinting:
so I did some research. The NetBeans website said to download the latest de...

Mathletics is an online math learning platform which, among other things, hosts global competitive math games. I took a look at their platform after hearing about it from a friend, and was curious about how points are handled on the client side (yes, I...